April 17 2008 12:00 AM ET
Cynthia Nixon Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness
Cynthia Nixon has joined forces with the breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure and is going public with her own battle with breast cancer.
April 08 2008 12:00 AM ET
Egyptian Doctors Denounced for Breaching Medical Ethics
A coalition of 117 human rights groups worldwide is denouncing not only Egypt for arresting and detaining HIV-positive men for the "habitual practice of debauchery" but also many of the detainees' doctors, who participated in the illegal crackdown.
April 03 2008 12:00 AM ET
Study: AIDS Drug Increases Heart Attack Risk
A commonly used AIDS drug appears to nearly double the risk of a heart attack, researchers said Tuesday.
April 03 2008 12:00 AM ET
Thailand Temporarily Bans Castration Done for Nonmedical Reasons
Thailand's health ministry ordered hospitals and medical clinics to temporarily stop performing castrations for nonmedical reasons, saying Wednesday that the procedure performed on transsexuals needs stricter monitoring. The move came after a leading gay activist, Natee Teerarojjanapongs, called on the Medical Council of Thailand to take action against clinics that perform castrations on underage boys, who seek them in part because of Internet advertisements that promise cheap operations resulting in feminine qualities such as softer skin. Natee, head of the Gay Political Group of Thailand, said he received several complaints from these underage boys' parents.
March 28 2008 12:00 AM ET
New Study Shows Alarming Drug Use Among LGB Teens
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual teens are 190% more likely to abuse illegal substances than heterosexual youths, according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh.
March 21 2008 12:00 AM ET
Blacks, Hispanics Targeted in HIV Campaigns
Two new HIV awareness campaigns were launched Wednesday by the New York City–based Gay Men's Health Crisis targeting women and gay and bisexual young men of color.
March 18 2008 12:00 AM ET
First Lady Visits Haitian AIDS Clinic
U.S. first lady Laura Bush toured Haiti's capital on Thursday to promote funding for AIDS patients and support education in the impoverished Caribbean country.
March 15 2008 12:00 AM ET
California Targets Crystal Meth Addiction in New $11 Million Campaign
Drug officials in California launched an $11 million campaign on Thursday to dissuade gay men from using methamphetamine, otherwise known as crystal, because of its connection to unsafe sex and the transmission of HIV.
March 13 2008 12:00 AM ET
Congress May Strike HIV Travel Limits
Gay rights activists are hoping to use a global AIDS relief bill supported by the Bush administration to repeal a 15-year-old law restricting travel to the United States by HIV-positive people. Activists oppose the near-ban as discriminatory since HIV is the only medical condition singled out in the Immigration and Nationality Act for inadmissibility. Under a 1993 amendment to that law, foreigners with the virus can obtain visas to come to the United States only under limited circumstances and if they get a waiver from the Department of Homeland Security.
March 08 2008 1:00 AM ET
Canadian Ban on Blood Donations From Gays Upheld
Canada’s two blood collection agencies decided Thursday to uphold a lifelong ban on donations from gay men, despite complaints from two of Montreal’s leading experts on HIV and AIDS, The Gazette of Montreal reported Friday. Héma-Quebéc and Canadian Blood Services said they will uphold their current policies, even though they admitted lifting the ban -- while maintaining certain restrictions -- would not result in contamination of the blood supply. After commissioning a report from McLaughlin Centre for Population Health on effects of lifting the ban, Canadian Blood Services officials said they hadn’t been entirely convinced of the ban’s uselessness.
